Ml'. R. Tcmpleton oji a new species 0/ Vaginula. 49 



veins broadly black ; exterior margin black, with a marginal row 

 of small sjjots, submarginal and third row of large and less 

 distinct spots ; hind-wing with all the veins black, also a mar- 

 ginal row of ill-dcrined, black, lunnlar spots. Under side paler 

 greenish-white; all the veins of both wings less black than the 

 upper side, with an indistinct marginal row of spots. Body 

 longitudinally striped black and white. 



Expanse 3i inches. 



Hab. N. India. In British jNInscum Collection. 



Allied to H. consimilis, but may be distinguished by its larger 

 size, and by the absence of the broad, transverse, spotted bands. 



VII. — O/i a new species o/" Vaginula //-ow Ceylon. 

 By Robert Templeton, Esq. 



[With a Plate.] 



The genus Varjinula was formed by Fevussac for the reception 

 of small, ilattish Limaces which he had received in spirits from 

 Brazil : it formed the first genus of his second section Tetracera, 

 which included the Slugs with four horns, as contradistinguished 

 from the first section, made up of the single genus OncicUum, 

 which had only the ocular pair. Shortly after the institution of 

 the genus, ^Ir. Guilding added another species from the island 

 of St. Vincent*, and subsequently other species were added by 

 Lesson from Lima, by Van Hassclt from Batavia, and by Ferussac 

 himself from specimens forwarded to him from various parts of 

 India. These species are described in the ' Histoire Naturelle 

 des jMoUusques,^ p. 90 (1819). I believe, in respect to species, 

 the genus remains much in the same state as when left by its 

 distinguished author. 



The species now added has most affinity to Ilasselt^s Batavian 

 species, but is perfectly distinct from all : it is very common in 

 moist places during the prevalence of the S.W. monsoon in the 

 lower country about Colombo in Ceylon. 



There is another species (PI. II. B. fig. 6), somewhat larger 

 and ferruginous in colour, with less obvious markings, in the 

 district about Ratnapoora; but I have not had an opportunity 

 of carefully examining it. 



Vaginula, Ferussac. 



V. maculata, Temp. Plate II. B. fig. 1. 



Body ovate-oblong, depressed, rounded behind ; the dorsum 



* Linn. Trans, vol. xiv. p. 323. 

 Ann, cV Mat;/, N, Hist, Ser. 3, Vol. i. 4 



